In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose SaramagoA human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Jose SaramagoWe never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
Jose SaramagoFor me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
Jose Saramago